Stavanger Bay barnacle bill

none of what smokestep imparted was new to sandpiper, who took it all in with an insufferable smirk of knowing -- a smirk which suddenly vacated her features as she caught raptor's form not too far from her brother's.

anger anew flushed her, and she clamped her tail tightly around her haunches, flexing her claws into the sand. her teeth clenched and the she-wolf looked away, studying the faces of her fellow swabs for any sign of mutiny or dissent.